![]() ![]() He's hardly got five seconds of screen time, yet here he is, fleshed out on the page. It's also hilarious (and interesting to note) how the bellboy Anatole's squeaky excuse for not fixing his hat – "The strap's busted!" – made the final cut. He grows fond of Zero, but here his skepticism is front and centre. You see that Zero is eager to please and you also soon find out that M. Gustave H (Ralph Fiennes) asks for Zero's (Tony Revolori) prior experience in this lobby boy interview clip (below), the comedic tone and character development start to take shape. THE LOBBY BOY INTERVIEW – ATTENTION TO DETAIL Gustave H's "dazzling pink handkerchief". Here, Anderson cut right to the chase and cut out Madame D.'s tear-filled aside, even though he found the time to describe M. Here, it's supernatural – fast and furious – which gives the already ludicrous characters an even sillier edge. Anderson flipped the switch on naturalistic dialogue. The amounts of 'umms' and 'ahhs' peppering regular speech are more common than the colour yellow in a Wes Anderson flick. Nobody talks like that! There is a whole genre of film concerned with hyper-realistic dialogue called mumblecore. ![]() One aspect that is easy to take issue with in most films is how the delivery of dialogue can often seem unrealistic – one line follows the next like a swift slap in the face. Wes Anderson is brilliant when it comes to pacing of comedic dialogue, and this film is the paragon of that brilliance. While we can only speculate why, it could be due to pacing (read: it slowed things down). This first diatribe (below) was cut from the final version of the movie. NOTICING THE NAIL VARNISH – COMEDIC TIMING But what of the writing? Let's lift the lid on the genius mind of Wes Anderson to see what odds The Grand Budapest Hotel has of nabbing a golden statue for screenwriting. That could very well be the reason behind all its visual treats. ![]() Anderson penned the script and dreamt up the story for this year's caper The Grand Budapest Hotel along with Hugo Guinness, a British illustrator and member of the "banking line" of the esteemed Guinness family. Many worship at the altar of Anderson, and for all the right reasons. That is, however, most certainly not the case for Wes Anderson. More often than not they give a leg up on the director in terms of visualising a behemoth story arc – including actors' blocking, production design and other elements that a director hasn't even begun to consider. What's perhaps most interesting with this Q4 script drop is seeing how a screenwriter's vision has been translated (or garbled) for the big screen. Ever wonder why all the Oscar noms are for films unleashed no less than a month before the actual awards ceremony? There's an unspoken art to perfecting a film distributor's release calendar. It serves as a reminder of the releases that popped off earlier this year and were soon buried by those that came later. The hope? To sway the Academy's floating voters in order to secure a nomination. About this time every year, studios ration out scripts from the awards season contenders. ![]()
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